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About West side enterprise. (Independence, Polk County, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1904)
WEST SIDE ENTERPRISE INDEPENDENCE OREGON Tin T5Tcst Slds Eaisrprlsa rtBUHHEl KVKRV THA'RHOAY. WALTER LYON, Epitor BatereH t Inrtepewtsae. Or puMofllee. SuecutKl-fliMUl lusllvr Sub sorption, $1.50 Per Yar IKLW'llOMJ l. SUBSCRIPTION RATE (Strictly lu 1tuo) Prr yr Hlx months tttugl copy , 74 04 Reading notices 10 cepU per lln lrlghU RaiMon display advertising nile known on iipUoalloii. , The editor of the Tolk Count' Observer has another fit. lie always has when he gets off on the wrong foot, hence life with him is coming to be one sweet round of spasms. Ihe latest excuse for being thrown into convulsions was furnished the super-sensitive Observer when the West Side Enterprise gave to the public the news of a a lire being started in the court house on the Fourth of July and the Observer didn't. Both saw the item at the same time but the Obseryer was beaten to it. Seeing the error of slighting or attempting to suppress a news matter of interest to every tax payer in the county the Observer tries to hide behind the Fourth of July committee and Judge Sibley and in its frenzy either wilfully or carelessly misrepre sents the report of this paper. There is no apparent reason however why the Judge's name should be exempt from appear ing in connection with an error of his judgment, the result of -which threatened disaster in volving the whole county. The publication of important news like this in the eyes of the Ob server is "silly" and "yellow jour nalism." Good morning, Carey! Why your bald statement ascribing to this paper the re port that Captain Fiske or any .body else was soaked with water . or any other fluid. is as false as your political prophecies. Your railing at the flames going up ward is assinine. Yojur attempt to belittle the size of the room where the fire works were kept and fire started, is futile, Your effort to hayethe public believe that $50 will cover the loss is the cropping out of that 16-year old disposition of yours to pass upon things that you know nothing about. Adjusters will inform you of the loss. Your statement that the court house never was in danger entitles you to Annania's crown. Your hand is jaundiced and your paper too . "yellow" for a small pox flag. Take something for your dispos ition, Carey. Forget your name is Carey Hayter. Recognize that the world revolves on its axis and you can't make it revolve around any person or place on its surface. Tell the truth, if it does hurt. Treat all alike. Play no favorites. Get out of the 'rut. Give the news. Be loyal tn tliA nnhlic rather than indi r viduals. That such a mlpu KsJ i. kJ S will be appreciated is abundant ly attested by the constantly growing list of subscribers to the West Side Enterprise. There isn't the slighest doubt but this paper will publish the news as it! happens regardless of whom it 1 happens rega hits. They who want the un biased news of important hap penings in Polk county, can get it first handed iu this paper. The Portland Journal is near unto the breakers. It has again ' taken up the jetty at tl e mouth of the Columbia river. JuJgo Iuker claims u corner on silence. When the demo cratic platform caiuo nut nilent on the money question, the Judge spoke up. William Bailey aged 72 and Mrs. Sarah Kdleman, aged 70, were married in Corvallis hist Friday. They probably are old enough to suit the Astoria editor who rails at youthful weddings. A Portland paper thinks un less more hotel room is provided visitors to the Lewis and Clark Fair next year will have to roost in trees. Happy thought, pro vided nil who attend are roosters. (Jeo. Graves and his auto passed through Albany yester day afternoon in a very quiet and careful manner. Albany Democrat.' He reached here Monday of this week still con ducting himself in a very decorus manner. Mrs. W. C. Conner, wife of Editor Conner of the Roseburg Plain dealer, shot a deer and cut its throat near Cottage Grove last week. If all dears look alike to Mrs. Conner, Roceburg is liable to be short one editor while the deer season is open. In nominating Judge Tarker for President Mr. Littleton said "If you ask me why he has been silent I answer because he has not attempted to be the master of his party, but is content to be its servant." Within the next twenty-four hours Parker played the party dictator, but not until he had obtained the nomination "The offices of the operating department of the Southern Pa cific Company are being removed from old headqvarters corner of Third and Washington streets in Portland to the Union depot and the other offices to the Worcester building. , Mr. Calvin is general manager of both the Southern Pacific and O. R. & N iu Orpeon and Mr. Koehler has gone to Europe, on a vacation. Another bit of . news in con nection with the big merger awaited with interest by people along the west - side is the announcement of another train out from Portland. "Spray your hops!" This is the advice of practical hop' men who have been successful grow ers for a number of years. The rain has been helpful, though the crop is not as heavy as it would have been had the rain fallen earlier in the season. The danger to be avoided now is the ravages of the vermin. Says a a prominent hop grower: "The expense of spraying is so small that there is no excuse for any grower failing to spray." Ac cording to II. Hirscberg's esti mate, hops can he sprayed by , macnine nower at a cost vi i. $3.16 an acre. Allowing 1500 pounds to the acre this is an expense of only 1-5 of. a cent per pound. This expense may be itemized as louows. i pounds of whale oil soap at 5c, 70 cents; 16 pounds of quassia chips at 6c, 96 cents, making $1.G6 for one acre. One day's work, 6 acres; $3; one team, $3; one team for water hauling, $3; one sled, $1.50; one laborer, mixer, $1.50, making a total of $9 for six acres pr $1.50 for one acre, which, added to the cost of material, makes $3.16 per acre. The financiul report of the Direct Primary Nominations League, of which A. L Mills is president and W. S. Uren sec retary is now being sent out. It shows the total expenses incident to the campaign in which the direct primaries were overwhelm ingly carried, was $1700.52. The statement gives the names of all contributors, the totulof which is $l")S5, leaving a deficit, after all subscriptions are paid in, of $130.52. The League officers, in their report, take occassion to thank the press for its effective work to help roll up a big majority for the Direct Primary law. . Iu a total vote of 72,550, only 10,354 voted against it. It is said the rich men of Tort land have taken to heading the list .in subscribing funds for the public enterprises. That's the most hopeful sign of progress Portland lias yet shown. Every democrat is at liberty to write his own financial plank. May be Acquired. "Several physieans of the Belle vue Hospital, New York, have sud denly contracted tuberculosis" from association with patents in the in stitution. House burgeon liobert b. Mac Donald is the most serious ly affected, and his death is expect ed hourly." Undoubtedly tuberculosis, like other diseases, may be acquired by infection from another, where there is any predisposition to such a disease in the blood of the person so atlected in other Words, when there are impurities in the blood, among which the germs may find a good breeding ground. It is iua possible to take root and flourish in the body of a person whose blood is perfectly pure as it would be for you to set fire to a pile of iron fillings, but if there are thav ings of wood among those iron filings then you can start a blaze great or small, according to how numerous the shavings may be. Such being the case, it is evident ly a great mistake for those who may be subjected to tuberculosis to remain in a city, where the wind is constantly blowing around minute germs or dry consumptive sputum, which being inhaled, may easily take root in the body of susceptible persons. By all .means let con sumptives lake to' the mountains, or the desert, and live in small cottages or tents, in the open air That with a plain, nourishing diet, is their greatest hope of sal vation, whatever 'mercenary preten ders and fakers may say. When To Marry. Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages are the result of human calves being allowed to run at large in the society pastures with out yokes on them. They marry and have children before they have mustaches, and they are fathers of of twins before they are the pro prietors of two i airs of pants, and the little girls who marry them are old women before they they are twenty. Astoria Herald. Editor Curtis is an old married whelp and delights to discourage girls during the remaining few months of leap year. Dog Tax Notice. Notice is hereby given to owners and Keepers of dogs that dog license were due Julv 1. 1904. If said license are not paid by August 1st, 1904, all dogs within the city limits found without collars and license tag attached thereto, will be dealt with according to the provis ions of ordinance No. 53, govern ing the same. A. J. TUPPER, City Marshal. H. O. Ottenheimer, a hop buyer of Salem was in town Tuesday. kllKODOUU ROOSUVELT is the youngest mail wlu ever held llnv otlliH of president or the Unit til Statu. He wait not fortythroo year or age until more .than a month nftor the assassination of President McKlnley. tloneral tJriint was the youngest mini over actually elected to the presidency, though if President Roosevelt should 1ms suooesa fui t the polls in November ho will displace Urnut from tluit distinction. At the time of Ida Inauguration iinuit was within one mouth of the forty seventh anniversary of his birth, while Mr. Roosevelt will uot be forty-seven until lie. i.'.". 1903. In mreral other respects the present candidacy of Mr. Roosevelt is uithpie. In tho flint place, or th thirteen presi dential candidates immeil by the Re publican nurly, Mr. Roosevelt In the first lintUe of New York state, lie la also the first president who was Itorn In New York city. He is the first iniiu who, becoming president by the death of hid principal, ha received the iioml- 1 ; h 4 ZMm PRESIDENT TIlEOnOKE ROOSEVELT. nation for the higher office at the hands of his own party. Of his four predeee? sore In the vice presidential office who succeeded to the presidency, John Ty ler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johusou and Chester A. Arthur, but one, Fill more, was a candidate before the peo ple for the presidency at the ensuing election, and even he was not 'nomi nated by the party which had made him vice president The others were all anxious to receive the Indorsement which the nomination for the presi dency would have implied, and one of them, Chester. A. Arthur, nearly suc ceeded, but the popularity of James G. Blaine with his party wasstoo great to be overcome, and Arthur was defeated In the convention by the "Plumed Knight," who in turn was beaten nt the polls by Grover Cleveland, at the time a comparatively unknown nju. The present campaign is the thirteenth for the Republican party. In, all but three elections since its formation into a national organization it has been successful, the three exceptions being: 1850, when John C. Fremont was de; MRS. THTSODOIl BOOBKVBLT. feated; In 1S84, when Cleveland was elected over Blaine, and 1892, when Cleveland again won, bis Republican opponent being Benjamin Harrison, who had won from him four years earlier. Theodore Roosevelt started out In life with what some observant Individual has declared to be the two greatest handicaps a boy can have ill health and great wealth. He has, however, overcome they both, for be la now as rigorous a specimen of physical man hood a on would wish to see, and It In said that he possesses nt prenent but a small portion of the emit fortune which he Inherited from hi father. Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace was 2S East Twentieth street, New ork the date, Oct. iT, lut Ilia fiither. Theodore, w n wealthy descendant of an old Knlekerhocker family and was well known an a philanthropist. Ilia mother w a demandant of Archibald Bullock, first president of tleorgla aw ing the Revolution. F.lfcht generations of President Roose velt'K family have lived In New York, nml from the middle, of the nevontcenth contur.v the nanio ha been In thepolill cul, bimlnenn and ioelul affair of Cotham. The founder of the family In America wan KIiikh Mnrenmin Uoomiv volt, who came from Holland In llMl and nettled In New York, ' The 50UIIII Theodore wn described OB a "weak eyed, pig cheated hoy, too frail to take part In the mmiti of ImU of bin age." Though frail, however. "Tedd.v" ns ho wan familiarly called by hi playmates, wan not nt ull lack- lug in ambition or .in courage. In the veins of his nnccHtors there flowed Dutch, Irish, Scotch and Kreucb Hu guenot blood. "From the Dutch," writes one of his biographers, "he obtained his name, from the Scotch his obstinacy, from the French his Impetuosity and from the Irish his gift of tongue." Young Roosevelt was sent to private schools during his early years to avoid the rough treatment of boys in the pub lic schools. He entered Harvard with the determination to make a man of himself, mentally and physically. By obedience to tho laws of health and careful exercise the puny, sickly boy grew to robust manhood. At Harvard the tastes of 'young Roosevelt, already exhibited for natural history and hunt ing, were plainly manifested. His riile, with which he had roamed the woods in summer, was the most conspicuous object in his room. Live turtles, other animals and insects were also in evi dence. Ills stubborn defense of his own convictions, even against the opin ion of bis instructors, is still reraem bered by his classmates. Athletics at Harvard received from him duo consideration. He soon be came the champion lightweight boxer and was also u fair cateh-as-eatch-can wrestler, a good runner and a lively polo player. For a time he was cap tain of the college polo club. Young Roosevelt was graduated from Harvard In 1SS0. After extended travel In Europe he returned to the United States, studied law for a few months and then plunged at once Into the mael strom of municipal politics. He was elected in 1881 as assemblyman from the Twenty-first assembly district, and, although then but twenty-three years old, soon succeeded in making himself a storm center at Albany. His best known work in the legislature at this time was in connection with the pas sage of the nets abolishing the fee sys tem in county offices and in depriving aldermen of their veto power of the mayor of New York's appointments. He served two terms in the legisla ture. In 1884 Mr. Roosevelt went to Chicago as chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican national convention. The next two years of the president's life bore unexpected and unforeseen fruit They made him an author, paved bis way for appointment as assistant secretary of the navy and undoubted ly gave him fhe training and view of life which later suggested to him the formation of the famous regiment of rough riders. After retirement from the legislature Mr. Roosevelt went each summer to the ranch be bad purchased In the Had I-anils of N-rth Dakota. Mo been ins there an expert rider sud gained a reputation a courageous muii, an Indefatigable hunter of big game and u sportsman of ability. There he became Intimately acquainted with the ranchmen, rustlers and cow punch ers who subsequently formed the nu cleus of the regiment of rough rulers. In lSKU Roosevelt was again lu the turmoil of New York city polities. Henry lieorge was the labor candidate for mayor. A brain 8. Hewitt was tho noinliK of the Democrats. Mr. Roose velt was put In the field by the Repub licans. Mr. Hewitt won. President Harrison In INSft appointed Mr. Roosevelt I'nltcd Htntes civil serv ice commissioner, lie was a firm be liever in the competitive merit system and put his Ideas III force at once. 1'ivsUlent Cleveland retained him In office, but Mr. Roosevelt resigned In IMPS to become, president of the New York board of police commissioners. The police department hud Just been exposed as corrupt to such an extent that many felt that only a reorganisa tion would work any radical Improve ment. I'mler Mr. Roosevelt the mo rale of the force became higher than It has ever been since, and the efficiency of the men advanced In proportion. president McKlnley nominated Mr. Roosevelt on April , TWIT, to bo as slstant secretary of the navy. From the verv first Mr. Jtoowvelt foresaw the possibility of a conflict with Hpnln, ii nd he sut ubout preparing his depart ment for It. He spent enormous sums of money in ammunition ror target practice and left nothing undone that could secure tho highest efficiency In (lie service when tho time for action should arrive. When actual hostilities. began. In 1S!'8, Mr. Roosevelt resigned his post In the navy department and orgiuilxi-d a regiment of rough riders. The history of Roosevelt and bis rough riders during the Santiago enm palgn Is too well known to be repeati-l. After fiuiisintns and San Juan Hill Colonel Wood was made a brigadier general and Lieutenant Colonel Roose velt the regiment's colonel. After the cftiiinnlim was over Colonel Roosevelt rreturnod to the I'nltcd Htntes to find himself talked of for the gubernatorial noml.uitlou l New York. Ho was nominated and elected. ' From the governor's chair to the vice presidency was but a step, although an unwilling one for Mr. Roosevelt. He was nominated nt Philadelphia June 21, tlNKl. Mr. Roosevelt was unwill ing to have his name presented to the convention, declaring that he did not desire the nomination, but he finally yielded. The tragic death of President McKlnley Pept. 14, llKil, made Mr. Roosevelt president. One of the most astonishing things In -the president's life Is the great amount of literary work he has accom plished despite his manifold other con- cerns. He began to write before he " left Harvard, nud in the year after he was graduated he produced his "Naval War of 1812." Ho wrote a "Life of Thomas H. Benton" and also n blogra- TUB HOOHKVKIr StIMMKII HOW K AT OYSTEn . BAY, N. Y. phy of (louverneur Morris, followed in 1888 by his "Ranch Life and Ilti'itlng Trull," which proveTl u very popular book. "The Winning of the West." however, lie considers his greatest lit erary work. Other productions of his pen ara "Historic Towns," "History of Nw York City," "Essays on Practical Pol itics" and "The Wilderness Hunter." He also wrote "American Political Ide als." "Tho Rough Riders," "Life of Oliver Cromwell" and "The Strenuous Life," and. In collaboration with Henry l.'ubot Lodge, produced a volnme en titled "Hero Tales From American History." Most of President Roosevelt's time during the coming campaign will bo spent at his fine country home at Oyster Hay. At this beautiful estjitu on Long Island sound Mr. Roosevelt has passed ninny pleasant summers, eveji before he became prominent po litically. He has an Interesting family, consisting of a wife and six children. Mr. Roosevelt has been twice married. Ills first wife was Miss Alice Lee of Boston, who died In 1884, one year after her marriage, leaving a daughter, Miss Alice Roosevelt, now twenty years of age. In 1880 Mr. Roosevelt led to tho altar Miss Edith Kerinit Carow, the friend and plnymate of his child hood. The five children resulting from this marriage are Theodore, aged sev enteen; Kerinit, fifteen; Ethel, thirteen: Archibald, ten, and Quentin, seven. Tho boys are great advocates of the "strenuous life" and never lose an op portunity to put their theories Into practice. Mrs. Roosevelt Is essentially a "home body," although she is a mem ber of a family which for generations has been prominent In the social life of New York city. She has the repu tation of being one of tbe best house keepers In Washington, and her devot ed husband, who treat her with the same gallantry that be accorded her while tbey were children and later sweethearts, declares that tbe refuta tion is well deserved.